# Quote — Tanith Lee, Electric Forest

> In the partial silence, the ocean asserted itself, waves hurled loudly against rock, slithering back with smashed spines, then, healed by immersion, hurled forward again.

- Author: [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md)
- Book: [Electric Forest](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest.md)
- Page: 88
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tanith_Lee#Electric_Forest_(1979)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/in-the-partial

## More from this book

> Nothing can be learned without some measure of risk, and, more vital still, of patience.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/nothing-can-be-learned.md)

> Self-love is neither fantasy nor vulgar joke. The totality of the “I,” the inbuilt survival and self-protective trait, is one of the most unshakable syndromes known to psycho-science.

p. 155 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/self-love-is-neither.md)

> In our place, we can hardly go backward, but neither should we ignore the nakedness of humanity before the huge-wheeled vehicle of progress. We have too much to give, and far too much to learn, to throw ourselves away.

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/in-our-place.md)